{"id":7420,"date":"2015-04-30T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2015-04-30T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:16:56","slug":"will-your-audi-automatically-open-up-for-parcels-when-youre-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7420","title":{"rendered":"Will Your Audi Automatically Open Up For Parcels When You’re Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Audi

Would you trust your Audi to unlock itself and accept parcels for you?<\/p><\/div>\n

Missing parcel deliveries can be a major pain in the neck: long trips to the nearest depot, failed redeliveries — or worst of all, parcels that have been left somewhere ‘safe’, but somehow get damaged or disappear.<\/p>\n

Audi, DHL and Amazon Prime have come up with a solution, which\u00a0will allow\u00a0you to specify the boot of your Audi as a delivery destination.<\/p>\n

The delivery\u00a0driver will be provided with a one-time access code that will be available for a fixed period of time, allowing them to\u00a0unlock the boot without a key, before closing and locking it again with your parcel inside.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that this sounds too far-fetched — or too damn risky —\u00a0to be attractive, but the reality is that cars are becoming increasingly connected, and services like this could become commonplace.<\/p>\n

Starting in May, this service is going to be trialled in Munich, Germany. If it goes well, I’d expect it to expand — although in reality this may simply be one of those experimental services that provides data for future ideas but doesn’t take off in itself.<\/p>\n

After all, let’s face it:\u00a0modern cars are\u00a0now computers with an engine and wheels.\u00a0In a world where self-driving cars are already technically possible, having your boot unlock itself for a couple of minutes doesn’t seem that far-fetched, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audi, DHL and Amazon are trialling a scheme to automatically unlock the boot of an unattended car in order to take delivery of a parcel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1908,1910,1909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7422,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}